I swam out this morning from where we were going to start through the breaks out past the break wall then lined up with the end of the pier and swam over to it. Getting through the surf was pretty easy, waves weren't over head. I'd call it a gentle swell. Even the waves hitting me in the chest as I was peeing weren't strong enough to push me back. It was pretty easy to breath since if you looked when you were breathing you could see when the next swells were going to lift you

The RD & WTC's lawyers were probably pissing in thier pants thinking about some 60-75 yo, or those triathletes who are racing in the ocean for their first race ever, or those triathletes who swim 1x/mo, those who can barely break 45-50 min for a half IM swim and thinking hmmm this could kill them.

Putting the ocean into Oceanside was probably a bad call from the beginning since. Sad really, as I was looking forward to going through the swells.

Just another step in the pussification of the sport but really we're pretty far down that road so...

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Brian Stover USAT LII
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